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b'Picture a cockroach skittering across your kitchen. Eeww! Now imagine it served as an entr\\xe9e at your local restaurant. There\\u2019s good reason these diminutive arthropods give us the willies \\u2013 but they may also be the key to protein-rich meals of the future. Get ready for cricket casserole, as our relationship to bugs is about to change.\\nAlso, share in one man\\u2019s panic attack when he is swarmed by grasshoppers. And the evolutionary reason insects revolt us, but also why the cicada\\u2019s buzz and the beetle\\u2019s click may have inspired humans to make music.\\nPlus, the history of urban pests: why roaches love to hide out between your floorboards. And Molly adopts a boxful of mealworms.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nJeffrey Lockwood \\u2013 Professor of natural sciences and humanities, University of Wyoming, author of The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects\\n\\n\\n\\nDavid Rothenberg \\u2013 Musician, author of Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise\\n\\n\\n\\nDawn Day Biehler \\u2013 Assistant professor of geography and environmental studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore county, author of Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)\\n\\n\\n\\nAndrew Brentano, Jena Brentano and Daniel Imrie-Situnayake \\u2013 Co-founders, Tiny Farms, Berkeley, California\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nFirst released January 27, 2014.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'